Isabella Kappner

Professional history:

I received my MSc degree (Dipl. Biol.) in Marine Biology in 1999 from the University of Bremen, Germany were I studied autecology and behaviour of wormsnails. In 2007 I received my PhD in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Illinois at Chicago. My thesis focused on Venus clam systematics, taxonomy, morphometrics and phylogeography. In 2008 I was lecturer and coordinator at UIC and adjunct faculty at U of St. Francis. Since November 2008 I am a Lerner-Gray Postdoctoral Fellow at the AMNH working on sex-associated mitochondrial heteroplasmy in marine bivalves.